I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race.… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
I had several teachers who inspired me, in both the public school system and the Upward Bound program. I needed several, because… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of… — Peter Agre Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
Both my parents were educators, so interviews and college applications and shaking hands and looking people in the eye and feeling confident… — Vanessa Williams Copy Share Image
I got lucky. To be frank, I was surrounded by white teachers who never did the whole, 'You're never going to amount… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents… — Emily Rios Copy Share Image
I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position… — Thomas J. Stanley Copy Share Image
Education as the exercise of domination stimulates the credulity of students, with the ideological intent (often not perceived by educators) of indoctrinating… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was… — Bronagh Gallagher Copy Share Image
Most of my teachers didn't like me. I didn't get good grades because I pretty much lived at the public access studio.… — Trevor Moore Copy Share Image
As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers,… — Rachel Hurd-Wood Copy Share Image
You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I talk to teachers all the time. They tell me why they joined the profession. How they believed that they could inspire… — Damian Green Copy Share Image
“An educator should consider that he has failed in his job if he has not succeeded in instilling some trace of a… — Anthony Standen Copy Share Image
I urge state, local, and elected officials to make sure classroom teachers have a voice in your plans and efforts to reimagine… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize.… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Teachers dread nothing so much as unusual characteristics in precocious boys during the initial stages of their adolescence. A certain streak of… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Original sin is a self-initiating act because it evidences human free will. If humanity were devoid of free will, it would relegate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Teachers deserve respect," I explain. "Why do they get it for free, when everyone else has to earn it?" I blink at… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“People seek a tutor who has already educated one pupil. This is too much; one man can only educate one pupil; if… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“In large part, we are teachers precisely because we remember what it was like to be a student. Someone inspired us. Someone… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
Thus having been undeservedly accepted at the Conservatory as a professor, I soon became one of its best and possibly its very… — Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Copy Share Image
When I was young, all the politicians looked like ancient Latin teachers or greengrocers. They were mumbly, stumbly men with their hair… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
[Albert] Hoxie, my Western Civilization professor. I had him in my freshman year and he opened up an extraordinary world to me… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
I think higher ed in the U.S. is fairly healthy, and by global standards it dominates, and it makes people more productive.… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
I always - I knew from day one , in college, that I wanted to be a teacher .But I don't think… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is that you see young people as they're… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I wasn't a troublemaker. I wasn't impertinent. The teachers liked me. But year after year, the comments on my report cards basically… — Tim Howard Copy Share Image
To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
“Just a minute," said Lobsang. "Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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